Thursday, September 25, 2014

The dying of the newspaper

In our generation today the newspaper has fallen. I say that because the technology has become the source for just about all information . The newspaper has lost its relevance in this day & age . Which I understand why , because its quicker and easier to find out news from a app on your phone then to travel around the city to find a newspaper that you gonna have to pay for .  Now for the some people that are older the newspaper still might have some relevance in their life as far as the news is concerned , but on the other had people that are from my generation typically tear the newspaper apart to either find the sport section comics , or to even to put on a table to eat crabs .. I mean that's just the reality of the situation this newspaper is boring as hell . Its typed small and its normally on a low reading level , and its also black & white with no colors and very few images .... you cant tell me that shit aint boring .
In newspapers such as the USA TODAY or the Washington post it focuses more the broad aspects of the USA which would be like politics , sports , war updates , world news , but the newspapers like the Dundalk eagle or the afro focuses more on the community from a local aspect like community events or job listing or rapist or murders in the area which are not as broad as the topics the USA today or Washington post has. I honestly believe that local newspapers are slowly but surely dying just based off the fact that people just don't read the paper SHIT truth be told all newspapers are dying slowly but surely based off the fact that in today's society everything is on a smartphone device on a free app , where as the newspaper you have to find someone who is selling and buy which is clearly too much work when its easier to just pull it up on your phone within seconds ...... THE NEWSPAPER IS CLOSE TO DEATH !!


Thursday, September 11, 2014

What do we see ?



From the times I have been at the counter I have seen all types of magazines that touches on many topics that relate to our daily lives or entertainment in our lives. On the magazines I see images of food , celebrity couples , athletes , cars , and big homes , fashion . The headlines are cool I think some of them are bad depending on the topic because sometimes the media doesn't have full truth on some stories . I also think sometimes the media juice up some topics to draw attention off of it and I feel that sometimes that changes people perspective on some athletes and celebrities when sometimes the story gets twisted. Some headlines are positive and some are negative but I feel writers lean more to the negative aspect of things because that's  what draws the attention from the public. I strongly feel that the majority is gossip because it gives the public something to talk about , don't get me wrong there is some truth in the story but most is gossip I believe because the media never really knows the full story its always some part of the story missing. I feel that in some ways women are presented wrong , but I also understand that sex sells so if it being a nude lady on a cover of the magazine for it to sell then company will put her on front of that cover , but they also are presented in a good way when it comes to certain topics. Men are presented as dominate and strong and are also the ones the media make examples out of especially athletes. The magazines that stand out to me are the fashion based ones and the sports magazines , they stand out to me because that's my interest.Yes i actually buy those magazines. On the inside of the magazines I see pictures and I also read . I only read the articles that look interesting. Magazines draw me in mainly but the pictures . They advertising what draws people attention mainly pictures and big gold words. Yes in some way its what people want because they still have magazines and people do actually have magazine memberships where the magazines are sent to their home. In a way headlines can be both hopeful and fearful depending on the topic in a way they can be hopeful because it can have everything in it you been hoping to see or read and then it can be scary because it can have everything that you didn't want to see or read.